In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 11/07/2007
at 03:42 PM, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>And one also wonders
>whether it would have been so easy for the large EBCDIC installed base
What latge EBCDIC install base? EBCDIC was new on the S/360.
>As we all know,
No.
>EBCDIC puts the letters in the correct numerical order, collating
>uppercase and lowercase: AaBbCc....
C1, 81, C2, 82, C3, 83,...? No way, José.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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